arXiv:2505.05156eess.AS2025-05

用直方图建模音高不确定性,提升旋律估计可靠性。

Uncertainty Quantification in Melody Estimation using Histogram Representation

  • 将旋律估计转为回归任务,从音高直方图直接推断置信度
  • 贝叶斯方法在识别错误预测上表现最优,误差相关性更强
  • 适合关注音频预测可信度的音乐信号处理研究者

置信度估计可提升旋律估计的可靠性,指出哪些预测可能出错。现有分类法仅提供音高类别的置信度,无法捕捉预测值与真实值之间的偏差大小。为此,本文将旋律估计重新定义为回归问题,提出一种基于音高值直方图表示的不确定性估计新方法,该表示与预测值和真实值间的偏差高度相关。设计三种在直方图连续支持域上建模音高的方法,其中前两种通过映射解决无声段与有声段间的突变问题,第三种采用全贝叶斯框架,将音高检测视为分类,有声音高估计视为回归。实验表明,回归方法在识别错误音高预测方面比分类方法更可靠。与当前最先进的回归模型相比,贝叶斯方法在旋律及其不确定性估计上表现最佳。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Confidence estimation can improve the reliability of melody estimation by indicating which predictions are likely incorrect. The existing classification-based approach provides confidence for predicted pitch classes but fails to capture the magnitude of deviation from the ground truth. To address this limitation, we reformulate melody estimation as a regression problem and propose a novel approach to estimate uncertainty directly from the histogram representation of the pitch values, which correlates well with the deviation between the prediction and the ground-truth. We design three methods to model pitch on a continuous support range of histogram, which introduces the challenge of handling the discontinuity of unvoiced from the voiced pitch values. The first two methods address the abrupt discontinuity by mapping the pitch values to a continuous range, while the third adopts a fully Bayesian formulation, which models voicing detection as a classification and voiced pitch estimation as a regression task. Experimental results demonstrate that regression-based formulations yield more reliable uncertainty estimates compared to classification-based approaches in identifying incorrect pitch predictions. Comparing the proposed methods with a state-of-the-art regression model, it is observed that the Bayesian method performs the best at estimating both the melody and its associated uncertainty.

旋律估计不确定性量化贝叶斯方法音高建模

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